Famous First Words: Upon my word, I don't believe they're stirring yet. --Miss Tesman Hedda Gabler
Happy Birthday to Victor Hugo: I'll try to be brief but I have so much to Marseilles about the French Revolution. / At the time of the revolution what was in the middle of Paris? An R
..........Is easy to explain.........Eartha Kitt …..Under the Bridges of Paris
Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in the vigor of the laws. Outside of the laws, everything is sterile and dead. --Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
It is another gray, cold (32°F) Friday morning. (Just as I finished typing this sentence the sun came out looking cheerful and warm but it is fighting against some cloud to remain.) I hear but do not see Bruno ordering the squirrels about but they are too delighted with life to pay attention. Puck is asleep on his pillow having barked at the squirrels earlier and found the conversation one sided. But I have had my second shot, my friend, Joyce, who has been “prisoner” in a nursing home for a year can have visitors again and my eldest just became executive chef for The Reef restaurant – an upscale steak and seafood place up towards the airport. - which is reopening after a covid break. So the world looks pretty rosy at the moment and I am looking forward to a wonderful weekend. I certainly hope the same for you.
Hope your weekend is très libéré, ePistliers.
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Describe yourself in 3 words. Lazy
Ted Cruz: A senator nobody likes walks into a scandal nobody can resist.
I'm in such a Henri to get to the French Revolutions jokes. / The French Revolution...first come, first severed.
..........I never knew the charms of spring.........Ella Fitzgerald …..April In Paris
Trivia Questions: Happy Birthday, Levi Strauss
^ Any idea when or where blue jeans originated?
^^ Do you know or remember the recurring equine logo?
^^^ About what year did jeans for women go on sale?
^^^^ Care to guess what a pair of Levis sold for in 1873?
^^^^^ About how many pairs of jeans are sold in the USA every year?
Big Hello: Halito – Choctaw https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I just saw on the news that they are suggesting that people check on the elderly. I'm usually up by 6 or 6:30. Bring donuts. --Submitted by ss of kdmo
Max Picture of the Week: Mad Max at Road Warrior Training with grandpa
Fake Library Statistic of the Week: 18% of tea made in libraries is made for warming cold hands not for drinking. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Ted Cruz: So I went to Cancun because I don't mess with Texas.
French history is nothing to Lafayette at. / During the revolution, royalty was so frightened they lost their heads.
..........The day of glory has arrived..........Mireille Mathieu. …..La Marseillaise
Moonbeam: Not being heard is no reason for silence. --Victor Hugo
Third Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly. --Steven Wright
Meditation Seed of the Week: What is the lie you tell yourself most often?
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Being snowed in looked cuter on them Hallmark movies. --Submitted by #RHOZ
Week of the Week: National Engineering Week (21-27) --The Optimist says the glass in half full. The pessimist says the glass is half empty. The engineer says the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. / Architect: An engineer who can't do the math
Ted Cruz: Now I'm the only one in Texas in hot water.
The French Revolution was just like Prohibition; they both got rid of Bourbon. / By far the heaviest of the rebels was DanTon.
..........I felt unfettered and alive..........Joni Mitchell …..Free Man In Paris
^ In 1873 Levi Strauss & Jacob Davis of San Francisco patented rivet fastening pocket denim work pants and blue jeans were born.
Almanac: It is Friday, February 26, 2021. The moon will be full (Snow) tonight and is in Virgo. It is National Personal Chefs' Day, For Pete's Sake Day, Levi Strauss Day, National Bacon Day, and World Pistachio Day.
Among those born on this day were Wenceslas of Bohemia (1361), Guillaume Delisle (1675), Nichola Fago (1677), John Randall (1717), Victor Hugo (1802), Honore Daumier (1808), Filippo Marchetti (1831), Camille Flammarion (1842), Buffalo Bill Cody (1846), John Harvey Kellogg (1852), Herbert H. Dow (1866), Russell Alexander (1877), Tex Avery (1908), George G. Barker (1913), Robert Alda (1914), Theodore Sturgeon (1918), Tony Randall (1920), Betty Hutton (1921), Tom Kennedy (1927), Antoine "Fats" Domino (1928), Johnny Cash (1932), Eduard Buinovski (1936), Bob "The Bear" Hite (1943), Mitch Ryder (1945), Phyllis Eisenstein (1946), and Michael Bolton (1954
On February twenty-eighth Christopher Marlowe was baptized (1564), the Spanish Inquisition delivered an injunction to Galileo (1616), the Communist Manifesto was published (1848), the French Second Republic formed (1848), the 15th amendment was sent to the states for ratification (1869), the New York City subway opened (1870), Hedda Gabler premiered (1891), Acadia National Park was established (1919), Green Pastures opened (1930), Sue Dauser became the first female navy captain (1944), the first photo engraving typesetter was used (1954), somebody bought Secretariat from $5.7 million (1973), and Robert Penn Warren became the first US poet laureate (1984).
Night Sky, 2/16: Full Moon tonight (exactly at 3:17 am Saturday morning EST). The Moon is under the belly of Leo. This evening through the moonlight, Regulus is 7° to the Moon's upper right and Algieba is 7° above the Moon (again for North America.) Bring the binoculars. A typical binocular's view is about 6° wide. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Image of the Week: Perseverance's arm and parachute against the Martian sky
Yet Another Funniest Thing I Read of the Month: You meet a man on the Oregon Trail. He tells you his name is Terry. “Terry?!” you say laughing, “Terry's a girl's name.” Without any hesitation, Terry pulls out a gun and shoots you dead. You have died of dissin' Terry. --Submitted by FNOG
This Week: Saturday, February 27 – International Polar Bear Day & National Retro Day
Sunday, February 28 – Floral Design Day & National Tooth Fairy Day
Night Sky, 2/28 : Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn lurk very low in bright dawn, but Jupiter and Saturn are getting a little higher and less difficult to see day by day, and Mercury brightens while maintaining its position. Look very low in the east-southeast 20 or 30 minutes before sunrise. With the sky that bright, bring binoculars. See illustration below.
Monday, March 1 – Baby Sleep Day & Pig Day & World Compliment Day
Tuesday, March 2 – Dr Seuss Day & Peace Corps Day
Wednesday, March 3 – National Anthem Day & Simplify Your Life Day & World Maths Day
Night Sky, : Mars (magnitude +0.8, under the Pleiades) continues to fade in the evening sky as it moves from Aries into Taurus. Look for it high in the west-southwest right after dark.
Thursday, March 4 – Toy Soldier Day & World Book Day & National Grammar Day
Ted Cruz: Trades the snow and the slush for a toilet to flush
Maximilien's valet disrobes Pierre./ The colors of the new French Flag were decided by a flag poll.
..........Saving the world on his own.........Jimmy Buffet …..He Went To Paris
^^ The Two Horse Trademark depicts 2 horses attempting to pull apart a pair of Levi's waist overalls. Image
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If they can do rolling blackouts we can do rolling payments, right? Asking for a friend. --Submitted by #RHOZ
Moonbeam: To love another person is to see the face of God. --Victor Hugo
Late Night Snacks of the Week: And let’s be honest, nobody forced these Texans to choose the world’s shadiest company for their electricity, but also, nobody really talked about the worst-case scenario when they talked about the wonders of an unregulated market. --Trevor Noah / If you could wreak havoc on the markets by telling your internet buds to buy stock in Blockbuster as a goof, maybe don’t put those same markets in charge of, I don’t know, electricity. --Seth Meyers / Like many of Ted Cruz’s attempts to mimic human behavior... Only Ted Cruz would think he could repair his image by touching a maskless constituent two days after getting off an international flight. --Jimmy Kimmel
Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: Ollie and the Joy of Grandma's Lap
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: Oh Mitt. His statement he doesn't care for the very poor must have been a shock to the very poor, who until now had every reason to believe he was in their corner. The group Destitute People for Romney was devastated by this statement. They were like "We were so shocked at his callousness, we were out panhandling to put together a donation to his Super PAC, but now we'll just blow it on food." --Peter Sagal Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me 2/27/2012 ~~For some reason this week's episode wasn't up online. ??
It is impossible to reign innocently. --Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Ted Cruz: Supports a one-way wall.
Weather during the French Revolution? It was raining terrorbly. / When I told my students that the French forefathers had brought down the monarchy during the revolution they asked how 4 men could defeat a whole army.
..........She walks along the boulevard.........John Denver …..A Country Girl In Paris
^^^ 1943 saw the introduction of Lady Levi's.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: My cousin is so stupid he has to use spell check when he signs his name. --Submitted by rc or ks
Weird Word of the Week: Fidimplicitary: Individuals who put their faith in someone else's views. World Wide Words: Fidimplicitary
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Condition leather. If you're all out of mink oil, substitute Alberto VO5 Conditioning Hairdressing. Alberto VO5®: Wacky Uses
Puzzle of the Week: This week's challenge comes from listener Greg VanMechelen of Berkeley, Calif. Take the name of a famous actor — 4 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. Spoonerize it. That is, interchange the initial consonant sounds of the first and last names. The result will be two new familiar first names — one male, one female — that start with the same letter ... but that letter is pronounced differently in the two names. Who's the actor? --NPR Puzzle Sunday 9/27/20
Ted Cruz: When the going gets tough, Cruz gets gone.
The number of estates that were lost during the revolution was chȃteau-strophic./ How come there are no knock knock jokes about the French Revolution? Because freedom rings.
...........Afternoons on the Rue de Fleures.........Melissa Manchester …..When Paris Was A Woman
^^^^ A first pair of Levi's jeans cost $1.25 for one pair. One of those original pairs recently sold at auction for $46,532. FYI: Today Levi's 502 Taper Fit Men's Jeans sell for $148/pair. ~~And you can get it with Pokemon designs.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Books: helping introverts avoid conversation since 1454.
Science Fiction Joke of the Week: Maybe Texas should have been building a grid instead of a wall. --Nod Niltak --Submitted by jm of ks
Actual Science Joke of the Week: Do you know why we can fly a helicopter on Mars but can't turn on a light in Texas? Because scientists are in charge of Mars, and politicians are in charge of Texas
Ted Cruz: Received more money from oil and gas companies than any other senator
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: John Wayne — Juan, Jane
What did Marie Antoinette say when she heard the revolution happening in the street below. Oh, What a peasant surprise. / During the revolution they used to eat a breakfast of champignons.
..........We have taken to the streets.........Annie Clark …..Paris Is Burning
^^^^^ Approximately 450 million pairs of jeans are sold in the United States every year; this includes other brands.
Recreating Art With Anything You Can Find of the Week:
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: What has two butts and kills people? An assassin --Submitted by #RHOZ
Today's Peace of History: February 26, 1998 --An international Citizens' Weapons Inspection Team, led by Canadian Member of Parliament Libby Davies (NDP-Vancouver East), was denied entry to determine the presence or absence of weapons of mass destruction at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, Washington, nuclear submarine base, just 12 km (7 miles) from Seattle and less than 60 km (37 miles) from Canada.
Ted Cruz: Hero who traveled to Cancun to lasso the sun and bring it back to Texas.
Rebel mothers used to send their soldier children off with hugs and quiches. / I'd best stop making these French Revolution jokes before heads roll.
..........When the busy town goes home to sup.........Mel Torme …..Paris Smiles
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle February 2, 2021, ePistle eGalité. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam: Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection. --Victor Hugo
Cost of War:
As of 2/25/20 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,107,920,082,179.
As of 2/15/20 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,105,101,973,823.
As of 2/25/20 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,021,489,459,957.
As of 2/15/20 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,019,574,233,691.
As of 2/25/20 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $833,815,400,688.
As of 2/15/20 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $831,407,690,100.
As of 2/25/20 Veterans Care since 2001: $345,139,879,295.
As of 2/15/20 Veterans Care since 2001: $344,592,671,283.
As of 2/25/20 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,308,365,581,834.
As of 2/15/20 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,300,677,371,040.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
Morality is stronger than tyrants. --Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Famous Last Words: The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. --Manifesto of the Communist Party Chapter IV
..........De partir n'importe où..........Eartha Kitt …..C'est Si Bon
The next French Revolution will be a oui bit different. /The next French Revolution will be led by Robo-Pierre.
May Peace provide you advice
And Joy give you guidance
prairie mama
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